Researchers found, in Russia, the remains of a mammoth that was more than 50 thousand years old, practically intact.
The animal, which resembles a small elephant with a trunk, was found in the Batagaika crater, a depression more than 80 meters deep and which is growing increasingly due to the melting of the so-called permafrost, a layer of soil that tends to remain frozen during all year round.

Scientists in Siberia are carrying out tests on the carcass, which weighs more than 110 kilograms, and had to be taken to the surface on a makeshift stretcher, according to Maxim Cherpasov, head of the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory in the city of Yakutsk.
He said the mammoth was probably just over a year old when it died and that further examination should provide more details. He added that the fact that the creature’s head and trunk are well preserved is “particularly unusual.”

“As a rule, the part that thaws first, especially the trunk, is often devoured by predators or birds,” Cherpasov told Reuters.
This is the latest in a series of discoveries in Russian permafrost.
In November, scientists in the same region — known as Sakha or Yakutia — uncovered the 32,000-year-old remains of a small saber-toothed cat cub.
Additionally, earlier this year, a 44,000-year-old wolf carcass was also discovered.
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